Glarus

Glarus was a community in the Linth valley, centred on the town of Glarus. By 1288 the Habsburgs had claimed the rights of Säckingen Abbey over the valley.

Glarus joined the Swiss Confederacy in 1352 and repelled a Habsburg attempt to recover the valley at Näfels in 1388, rallying under a banner of Saint Fridolin. Religious division led Catholics and Protestants to hold separate assemblies from 1623. Glarus belonged to the canton of Linth from 1798 to 1803; its 1836 constitution reunited the assemblies.